A Reformer Is One Who Sets Forth

The Old Men Gazed On Them In Their Loveliness, And Turned Away With That Deep And Painful Sigh, Which The Gladness Of Childhood, And Thetransient Beauty Of Youth, Are So Apt To Awaken In The Bosom Of The Aged.

Even If Nothing Worse Than Wasted Mental Effort Could Be Laid To The Charge Of Theology, That Alone Ought To Be Sufficient To Banish It From The Earth, As One Of The Worst Enemies Of Mankind.

England May As Well Dam Up The Waters Of The Nile With Bulrushes As To Fetter The Step Of Freedom, More Proud And Firm In This Youthful Land Than Where She Treads The Sequestered Glens Of Scotland, Or Couches Herself Among The Magnificent Mountains Of Switzerland.

Even If Nothing Worse Than Wasted Mental Effort Could Be Laid To The Charge Of Theology, That Alone Ought To Be Sufficient To Banish It From The Earth ... What A Vast Amount Of Labour And Learning Has Been Expended, As Uselessly As Emptying Shallow Puddles Into Sieves! How Much Intellect Has Been Employed Mousing After Texts, To Sustain Preconceived Doctrines!

Misfortune Is Never Mournful To The Soul That Accepts It; For Such Do Always See That Every Cloud Is An Angel's Face. Every Man Deems That He Has Precisely The Trials And Temptations Which Are The Hardest Of All Others For Him To Bear; But They Are So, Simply Because They Are The Very Ones He Most Needs.